Science: Down with Meat

—The Department of Agriculture warned the U.S. people to prepare for big changes in their diet in 1945. Example: they will get a lot less meat, a lot more beans.

—Harvard doctors, after a two-month feeding test, announced that an active adult can get along perfectly well with no more than an ounce of meat a day.

Whatever it did to other people, this news last week did not depress U.S. biochemists. Their researches had discovered many substitutes for meat, some of them only a little less tasty than beefsteak and fully as rich in...

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